[ENGB38H3] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (37 pages long!)
Document Summary
This book is an essay about comics in comic form. The medium aka comics is a vessel which can hold any number of ideas and images. The content of those images and ideas is up to the creators (content expressed can be anything) Comics are an art form like painting. Space does for content what time does for film (side-by-side panels in comics" vs different times in films) Comics juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer. The word cartoon originally referred to the preparatory drawings that a painter or sculptor would make before starting their work in earnest. Punch, the 19th century english satirical magazine, started referring to their caricatures as. Cartoons" to emphasize their rough and unfinished qualities (their way of making fun of society) Ex: bloomerism an american custom"- making fun of women wearing pants.
